I was a complete Nix beginner three months ago and thought Nix was terribly complicated and unnecessary. Glad to say I was wholly wrong and the transition was not that bad.
NixOS me provision my servers from scratch to functional file/media/home automation server in about 15 minutes using an entirely automated Nix installation process. It’s a beautiful OS for servers
Absolutely, people fixate on Korea and Vietnam while ignoring that the US has won many ”fast” wars since 1945. Operation Desert Storm is a perfect modern example.
It isn't as polished as whatever first-party solution Apple has the potential to develop, but I just use OneDrive to restore my personal data + chezmoi to reprovision my dotfiles and it works pretty well.
About every six months I do a fire drill and completely factory reset my macbook. Takes about 10 minutes for me to go from a fresh device to one that has all my apps, data, and developer tools ready to roll. Only annoying thing you can't really automate is signing into services like OneDrive or Dropbox, but this isn't a problem if you use iCloud Drive.
> Even linux tools like shred have given up saying they can actually delete data from disks due to how SSD's work these days.
Which emphasizes the importance of enabling full disk encryption immediately whenever you start using a new device--BitLocker if you're on Windows, FileVault on macOS, LUKS on Linux, etc. Trying to decrypt data is much harder than reconstructing deleted data on a stolen drive.
You cannot with normal tools as writing a 0 to the SSD does not guarantee it overwrites the 0 you want. At best it does, at worst it writes the 0 somewhere else and remaps the bit (or whatever its physical storage thing is).
> Note: With a solid-state drive (SSD), secure erase options are not available in Disk Utility. For more security, consider turning on FileVault encryption when you start using your SSD drive.
So if you set up a Mac without FileVault you can never erase everything.
At least with my Lenovo I can do the secure erase.
> Notably, the report identified lighting, brakes, and axles as prominent sources of faults in the Tesla Model 3.
I would have thought the battery or the powertrain or some EV-specific component would be the source of the problems. Does anybody know why these more seemingly standardized parts are failing at higher rates?
The comparison is between old car manufacturers who have been perfecting building standardized parts for 10s of years, and between tesla who is still figuring that part out too.
Both VW and Tesla have been making EV-specific components for about the same amount of time (not long), but VW has something like 70 years more experience than Tesla in making brakes (edit: integrating brakes into cars, fine)
VW specs brakes that are built by companies (e.g. ATE/Teves, Girling, Brembo) with those 70 years of experience. Tesla, famously, brought all sorts of complex assemblies (e.g. seats) in house. So I'm curious with the situation is with the Model Three.
I can sorta understand wanting to bring something bespoke like seats in house, but friction brakes are commodity hardware. If Tesla is trying to DIY friction brakes that seems like a colossal waste of time.
Tesla puts a lot of effort into battery and powertrain reliability but relatively little effort into more visible things such as panel gaps, lights, interior trim, etc.
The panel gap meme is a myth - I've gone through quite a few Tesla's and none of them have had these 'huge' panel gaps that are rumored to exist. Not to mention all of my friends' Tesla cars do not have panel gaps either.
These parts are not part of the check. Only the safety and environment relevant things are checked. So, to say it a little ironicly, when your car have no motor, this is ok, as long the break is working correctly.
I'm surprised he was able to make such statements for this long.
I genuinely wonder why his captors even continue to let him live, when it seems like any post-2022 civil protest in Russia can and will be brutally repressed.
Putin is 71 and doesn’t look particularly healthy. It’s not clear that he has any strong successor, nor that he would leave such a successor alive if there was one. His government is strained to the breaking point and couldn’t fight off an internal military attack by one of his lieutenants, to the point where they almost reached Moscow in a few hours. When he dies, it seems likely that the country will fall to pieces as different factions try to gain power. Because of the way Putin has suppressed the opposition, Navalny is one of the only people who has any popular legitimacy in that environment. I still think it’s very unlikely he makes it, but prisoner to leader isn’t unheard of.
If he was making such statements (I'm not following this), does that mean that his lawyers were indeed being used by him to pass letters and that this is not propaganda?
Russian regime is strangely obsessed with following some procedure and complying to some law, even if it sounds like a joke. In this case they just found the way to legally stop publication of his statements and what they say is true if you accept their narrative as a whole. Still it is just propaganda and lie, because it is based on highly illegal (unconstitutional) foundation. The laws that they passed, the judicial process - everything is rotten to the roots.
It's really awesome to see this recent counter-revolution of developer tools emphasizing simplicity. Nue gives me the same optimistic, feel-good vibe that htmx and Alpine.js gave me when I first read about them.
- relying on a high-end monitor to provide sufficient color contrast
- loading an unreasonable amount of resources only to provide laggy animations
...I'm wondering if the responsible designer(s) only have 32-in Retina displays and the latest Macbooks to work with. Because on any other combination of devices, the website looks and feels awful.
And I know this because I was formerly guilty of it!
“ I'm wondering if the responsible designer(s) only have 32-in Retina displays and the latest Macbooks to work with. Because on any other combination of devices, the website looks and feels awful.”
I think often it’s that they aren’t users themselves. They make it “pretty” but not functional.
It's extremely rare that UX designers are also users of the products they develop. Maybe they use Figma or the order entry of Amazon even if they don't work for Figma or Amazon, but who of them is going to use again the order entry form for Random Customer N after they started working on the registration form of Random Customer N+1?
My GF is a designer and she always says that the problem is that nobody test anything. I've been helping with a project for her client and pretty much everything went on the fly.
I was able to spot obvious flaws in the design, she agreed but said that she had no time and such is life.
There are so many tools to see how a website looks like on multiple screens / devices. Even full on emulation. I can see a designer making this oversight but a UX designer doing that kinda makes the UX part of the title irrelevant.
